Hoop Crazy: The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii CHAPTER 1. The Extremes of Clair Bee: The Bad and the Good 1 The Early Years: 1896–1931 CHAPTER 2. Grafton and Valley Falls: 1896–1920 17 CHAPTER 3. Dick Dalton Goes to College: 1920–26 35 CHAPTER 4. Professor Bee and Coach Bee at Rider: 1926–31 47 Bee at Long Island University: 1931–52 CHAPTER 5. Making the Blackbirds Proud 65 CHAPTER 6. Defying Hitler; Losing to Luisetti 83 CHAPTER 7. The Innovator and the NIT Championships 99 CHAPTER 8. Jim Crow and the Spit Bucket 121 vii CHAPTER 9. Thanksgiving 1939: Ringers and Ambition 141 CHAPTER 10. World War II, Postwar Boom, and the Creation of Chip 159 CHAPTER 11. Chip Hilton and Race Relations 173 CHAPTER 12. Sixty-Four Manhattans and a Few Wives 187 CHAPTER 13. The Fix and the Fixers 201 CHAPTER 14. Sherman White and Coach Bee 221 CHAPTER 15. Journalist Bee Confronts the Scandal 235 CHAPTER 16. Bee the Psalm Singer 249 CHAPTER 17. Chip and the Scandal 267 Life after Long Island University: 1952–83 CHAPTER 18. The Bullets and Beyond 289 CHAPTER 19. Bobby Knight, Another Championship, and Blindness 305 Epilogue 319 Appendix 323 Notes 331 Bibliography 377 Index 383 viii Contents ...